YouTube is internally testing a product for playing online games, according to an email sent to employees of parent company Google.
Published Date – Tue, 23/27 at 1:47pm
New Delhi: Google-owned YouTube is reportedly working on bringing online gaming to its platform, which could be dubbed “Playables,” while streaming giant Netflix is also getting into the gaming space.
The video-sharing platform is testing an online gaming product that will let users play games through the YouTube website on the desktop or the YouTube app on iOS and Android devices, according to the Wall Street Journal.
“According to an email sent to employees of parent company Google, YouTube is internally testing a product for playing online games,” the report said. It added that this indicated Google’s ambitions to go beyond video hosting and into video games that users could play online. Easily play and share games between.
With billions of monthly users, YouTube has become a popular destination for gamers. The new gaming offering will feature arcade-style games such as Stack Bounce, in which players use bouncing balls to smash through multiple layers of bricks.
Gaming has long been a focus for YouTube, a company spokesman said. The spokesperson added that we are always experimenting with new features, but have nothing to announce at this time.
The gaming experiment on YouTube comes as Google shut down its cloud gaming service called Stadia earlier this year after it failed to attract users.
